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Counting Up Cities' Energy Savings and Climate Commitments I Brendan Guy's Blog 15... Page 3 of 4
<br />Now there's a practical solution. Last month, C40 and ICLEI -Local Governments for Sustainability- -
<br />representing 1,000 local governments worldwide -- released the first widely endorsed method for
<br />measuring and reporting reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It was launched at the Lima climate
<br />change conference - -a prelude to the final conference set for December 2015 in Paris to reach a new
<br />global climate agreement.
<br />The method, Protocol for Community -Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC), uses the
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<br />Over 100 cities worldwide are now using beta versions of the new method to measure their emissions,
<br />according to ICLEI. Those 100 cities are home to more than 170 million people, and represent a carbon
<br />footprint comparable to Brazil's entire emissions.
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